North Korean conference to pave the way for succession
The Workers’ Party conference, scheduled to begin today, was delayed from early September for reasons which – like much else in the reclusive country – remain a mystery to the outside world.
It will be the first major ruling party gathering since 1980, when current leader Kim Jong-Il was publicly confirmed as eventual successor to his own father and the North’s founding president Kim Il-Sung, who died in 1994.
